THE MEANING & THE CONTEXT
The story behind Jasmine
Jasmine is an English flower name whose word history runs through Arabic to Persian yasamin. Related name forms include Yasmin and Jasmin. The floral meaning does not identify one particular jasmine species or make it an exclusively Philippine-origin name.
Pronunciation & syllables
Dictionary readings are kept by language. Select the reading that matches your intended pronunciation. Dots show the source’s written divisions; they are not a universal syllable count across languages.
Tagalog
- /ˈd͡ʒasmin/Standard-Tagalog
- [ˈd͡ʒas.mɪn̪]Standard-Tagalog
- /ˈdjasmin/no palatal assimilation
- [ˈd̪jas.mɪn̪]no palatal assimilation
Jas · mine2 source divisions
Dictionary reading & contributors ↗Wiktionary contributors / Kaikki / Wiktextract · CC BY-SA 4.0
Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
TagalogEtymology & source
Borrowed from English Jasmine.
a female given name from English
Wiktionary: Jasmine (Tagalog) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
EnglishEtymology & source
From French jasmin, from Arabic يَاسَمِين (yāsamīn), from Classical Persian یاسمین (yāsamīn), from earlier یاسمن (yāsaman), from Middle Persian yʾsmn' (yāsaman).
A female given name from Persian.
Wiktionary: Jasmine (English) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Source accounts remain in their original English; editorial summaries and filters are adapted. Attribution and downloads
People with the name Jasmine
Public figures and other documented namesakes linked by an explicit given-name claim. This is a selection of records, not a popularity ranking.
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Jasmine Al-Khaldi
Saudi swimmer residing in the Philippines
The record establishes the name association, not the person’s intended meaning, pronunciation or ancestry. Descriptions are attributed to Wikidata contributors (CC0).
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
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eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗Wikidata
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distinct person records with an explicit given-name claim
Community-edited coverage, not a census or birth registry. Examples: Jasmine Al-Khaldi
A PLACE IN THE 2024 RECORDS
The Philippine picture
PSA counts exact spelling matches. This figure is not a count of all people with the name, and does not include related spellings.
See the full top ten ↗PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Jasmine in the birth records
Exact spelling, stated year, published top-ten tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Girls’ registered births
Available publications: 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. No 2021 count is inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Related forms & spellings
Related forms may have their own language histories. They are not included in this spelling’s PSA count.
Similar names to Jasmine
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Jasmin♂♀Name formation documented in dictionary sources
- Jasmín♀Given name documented in Philippine-linked records; lexical meaning not established here
- Armine♂♀Name formation documented in dictionary sources
- Jamie♂♀Name formation documented in dictionary sources
- Jamile♂♀Given name documented in Philippine-linked records; lexical meaning not established here
- Janine♀Name formation documented in dictionary sources
- Justine♂♀Name formation documented in dictionary sources
- Ermine·Given name documented in Philippine-linked records; lexical meaning not established here
What rhymes with Jasmine?
Matches share a dictionary-supplied rhyme key in the stated language. Check the recorded reading; another language or accent can change the rhyme.
Explore Jasmine further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wikidata given-name item Q4963071 — Jasmine (opens in a new tab)
Given-name identity, native labels, language associations and explicit class where present; not lexical meaning or population frequency.
- Wikidata — Jasmine Al-Khaldi (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q4963071 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wiktionary contributors — Jasmine (Tagalog) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Wiktionary contributors — Jasmine (English) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- Real Academia Española: jazmín (opens in a new tab)
Independent botanical word and Persian-via-Arabic etymology for the related Spanish word; not evidence of the English name transmission
- Behind the Name: Jasmine (opens in a new tab)
Flower meaning, Persian word history and related name forms
- Philippine Statistics Authority — Most Common Baby Names of 2024 (opens in a new tab)
2024 registered-birth count and rank; exact spelling.